Re: Begginer's Lesson learned! [Solved] Authentication Tutorial

Thanks for posting that. It's always good to post resolutions for
others to find.

On Fri, Dec 21, 2012 at 7:36 AM, OxfordRob <pestleweb@gmail.com> wrote:
> Thank you to jsundquist , crush, sams and cricket over the last few days for
> helping me with my Authentication tutorial problems. I fixed it this
> morning.
>
> My take-away from this is a very general 'lesson learned' and I thought I
> would share the knowledge for any other beginner who comes through here.
>
> The error message I started with was:
>
> PHP Fatal error: Class 'AppController' not found in
> /var/www/lib/Cake/Controller/CakeErrorController.php on line 31
>
> PHP Stack trace:
>
> PHP 1. {main}() /var/www/app/webroot/index.php:0
>
> PHP 2. Dispatcher->dispatch() /var/www/app/webroot/index.php:97
>
>
> This sent me on a 2-day joy-ride looking for, moving and changing access
> permissions to the 'AppController' class definition file. In the process of
> course I screwed up my configuration and got in a hopeless mess.
>
> So this morning I re-built everything very carefully, followed the
> instructions to the letter....and got exactly the same error!
>
> I was about to say "Enough cake for me"...but then remembered that "too much
> cake" is one of the shortest self-contradictory statements in the English
> Language.
>
> I decided to copy back the original, distribution AppController.php file -
> and the error message went away.
>
> My conclusion was...this is not the fact that the file is missing, but class
> is not compiling successfully. WIth this in mind I took a look at the Apache
> Error log.....and this is what I found...
>
> PHP Parse error: syntax error, unexpected T_CONSTANT_ENCAPSED_STRING,
> expecting ')' in /var/www/app/Controller/AppController.php on line 41
>
> PHP Stack trace:
>
> PHP 1. {main}() /var/www/app/webroot/index.php:0
>
> PHP 2. Dispatcher->dispatch() /var/www/app/webroot/index.php:97
>
> PHP 3. Dispatcher->_getController()
> /var/www/lib/Cake/Routing/Dispatcher.php:152
>
> PHP 4. Dispatcher->_loadController()
> /var/www/lib/Cake/Routing/Dispatcher.php:228
>
> PHP 5. class_exists() /var/www/lib/Cake/Routing/Dispatcher.php:259
>
> PHP 6. App::load() /var/www/lib/Cake/Core/App.php:0
>
> PHP 7. include() /var/www/lib/Cake/Core/App.php:560
>
> PHP 8. App::load() /var/www/lib/Cake/Core/App.php:0
>
> PHP Fatal error: Class 'AppController' not found in
> /var/www/lib/Cake/Controller/CakeErrorController.php on line 31
>
> PHP Stack trace:
>
> PHP 1. {main}() /var/www/app/webroot/index.php:0
>
> PHP 2. Dispatcher->dispatch() /var/www/app/webroot/index.php:97
>
>
> (This is where I should "Arghhhhh!")
>
> The error message shown on the screen is not the complete error string!
>
> I guess that Cake / PHP is only displaying the Fatal Error, and casually
> loosing the real error here. I.e. it was not that the file was missing or in
> the wrong place - but that the class definition had a simple syntax error in
> it (too trivial and embarrassing to mention here)
>
> So here is my beginners lesson learned: Keep an eye on the Apache error log
> (obvious really). The message on the screen is not only formatted in a way
> that makes it hard to read - it my not be displaying all of the useful
> information you need to sort out the problem.
>
> Rob
>
>
>
>
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